[PATCH] powerpc: fix distclean with Makefile.postlink

[Horia Geantă]

On 5/8/2017 2:57 PM, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> Horia Geantă <horia.geanta at nxp.com> writes:
> 
>> Makefile.postlink always includes include/config/auto.conf, however
>> this file is not present in a clean kernel tree, causing make to fail:
>>
>> arch/powerpc/Makefile.postlink:10: include/config/auto.conf: No such file or directory
>> make[1]: *** No rule to make target `include/config/auto.conf'.  Stop.
>> make: *** [vmlinuxclean] Error 2
>>
>> Change the inclusion such that file not being found does not trigger
>> an error.
>>
>> Fixes: f188d0524d7e ("powerpc: Use the new post-link pass to check relocations")
> 
> I can't reproduce this. What exact steps are you doing? And what version
> of Make?
> 
Start with a clean kernel tree and then
make distclean
arch/powerpc/Makefile.postlink:10: include/config/auto.conf: No such
file or directory
make[1]: *** No rule to make target `include/config/auto.conf'.  Stop.
make: *** [vmlinuxclean] Error 2

make --version
GNU Make 3.82
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Copyright (C) 2010  Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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The fix is basically the same as:
6e5b95cdbd0e MIPS: Fix distclean with Makefile.postlink

Regards,
Horia